1win Essence II — Dota 2
finishedWon by Team Liquid, runner-up Team Falcons.
- game
Dota 2- dates
- Jul 30 – Aug 5 2026
- tier
- 1
- location
- Europe
- teams
- 10
Against the season
8.2
average season-table rank of Team Liquid’s opponents
the 19th hardest path of 28 season events; 5 of 7 series against table clubs
table favourite Team Falcons (2nd): finished 2
+3
OG: 7th in the field by the table, finished 5–6
biggest climb of 7 field clubs
Season-table ranks of 7 of 10 field clubs, of 17median 13
The thick mark is Team Liquid, 7th in the table.
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
Team names follow the form used across the site: 1w → 1w Team. $0 — the place pays nothing: 2 rows of 10.
Champion
$100,000
first-place prize
12–4
Team Liquid maps here, won–lost
75.0% of maps here, 58.4% over the season
5.2% of Team Liquid’s season prize money: its 9th-largest payout of 22; the biggest: BLAST SLAM VI ($400,000)
How the pool is split
the pool is allocated by place in full
50.0%
first place
$100,000 of the $200,000 allocated
95.0%
top half of the rows
top 5 rows of 10 · $190,000
×2.0
first place to second
$100,000 against $50,000
Against the season: a larger first-place share than 24 of 47 events; median 46.5%.
The same pool is announced for 1 other event this season, so the two share rank 30.
Nearby in the season
neighbours by start date
Facts and records
3
titles this season for Team Liquid; this is the 3rd
This was Team Liquid’s 3rd title of the season; the one before came at BLAST SLAM VI. In our season table of 17 clubs, it ranks only 7th by win rate; the one club in this field above it was Team Falcons (2nd), and it finished 2nd here. The club went 7 tournaments without a title between its previous title and this one — the 7th-longest wait among the season’s 44 titles.
Maps played
60 maps · as of Oct 18, 2026, 06:44 UTC
39 min
median map, Radiant 58.3%
season: 40 min and 50.9% over 38 events with 10+ maps
The 10 latest of 60 maps are shown; the longest of all ran 88 min;
Maps as of Oct 18, 2026. No map of this tournament has a per-player breakdown. The same date window also holds maps of leagues that do not point to this tournament unambiguously: The Games of the Future 2026 — 2 maps.
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Team Liquid dropped two maps to Team Falcons on August 4 and answered a day later, when it mattered more: after a 2–0 win over 1w Team on August 5 it swept Falcons 3–0 in the final, and two of those three maps ran past an hour, 67 and 63 minutes.
It was Liquid’s third title of the season and its first after seven events without one. Falcons, the strongest club of the field by our table, finished second, and Nigma Galaxy, fourth at the first Essence, ended ninth to tenth this time with no prize money.
The pool doubled from the first edition to $200,000, and half of it went to the winner. Radiant won 58.3% of the 60 maps, against 50.9% across the season.